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http://durhamwonderland.blogspot.com/2006/09/heights-of-hypocrisy.html

La Shawn Barber has discovered what she correctly describes as "jaw-dropping" information: in response to a voter information form, Mike Nifong listed as among his favorite novels To Kill a Mockingbird. The book revolves around a courageous Southern lawyer who defends an innocent man railroaded on a rape charge in an atmopshere inflamed by racial passions. (end excerpt)

http://liestoppers.blogspot.com/2006/09/yard-work.html

WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 20, 2006

Yard Work

[snip]

This case is like that. There's 500 acres of lies out there, and there are people who own Really Big Equipment, commercial heavy-duty machinery that could mow that field to dust in hours. But the Big Guys haven't shown up... or the high grass suits them, so the job is left to a little army of neighbors who show up each morning with their push mowers, before they head off to work. The bloggers and the posters, the volunteers to defeat Nifong, the students and the local citizens. It might all be over now, if the Big Guys with the Big Equipment had showed up at the beginning, but the Little Guys will mow on without help, unbent and undeterred. (end excerpt)

Links that go with KC Johnson's piece--

http://lashawnbarber.com/archives/2006/09/20/duke-rape-case-denial-of-due-process/

I smelled a rat the first time I heard about the so-called rape. Twenty-four posts later, I can?t believe people still think three white Duke lacrosse players gang-raped a black stripper in a small bathroom during a party, despite overwhelming evidence that she made up the whole thing. Now that her gang-rape fantasies are ruining innocent lives, it's time she sought professional help.

McElroy states the obvious: the presumption of guilt has been reversed in this case. Durham Country DA Mike Nifong made it clear from the beginning that he thought the stripper-accuser was gang-raped in that house by lacrosse players. He race-pandered and campaigned when he should have been doing his job and keeping in mind certain legal ethics. Nifong's only redeeming quality is that he isn't as clueless as he looks. He knows he should have kept his mouth shut. [end excerpt]

http://www.foxnews.com/printer_friendly_story/0,3566,214584,00.html

Accused Denied Due Process in Duke Lacrosse Case?

Tuesday , September 19, 2006

By Wendy McElroy

Do the principles of justice still operate in American courtrooms? [end excerpt]